Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Bethany McLean

T2JournalistsCompanies and their leaders

Known for her reporting on the Enron scandal and the 2008 financial crisis; earlier an editor-at-large and columnist at Fortune and a contributor to Slate.

Vanity FairFortune

The Smartest Guys in the Room remains the definitive account of Enron and her Fortune reporting broke the story before the collapse.

5 books of their own · 27 articles

Books 5Writing 27

Start here

  1. The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of EnronPeter Elkind, 2003
  2. All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial CrisisJoe Nocera, 2010
  3. Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants2015
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing RThe Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
T1 The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Enron used mark-to-market accounting and hidden deals until its 2001 bankruptcy.

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Mohnish Pabrai and 1 other

All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
T1 All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

The 2008 crisis traced back 25 years to mortgage bonds, Fannie Mae and subprime.

Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. MShaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants
T4 Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants
Bethany McLean · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads
Saudi America: The Truth About Fracking and
T4 Saudi America: The Truth About Fracking and How It's Changing the World
Bethany McLean · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Big FailThe Big Fail
T4 The Big Fail
Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera · 2023
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of EnronHow Enron used mark-to-market accounting and hidden deals until its 2001 bankruptcy.2003T1Andrew Wilkinson, Mohnish Pabrai, Warren Buffett
All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial CrisisThe 2008 crisis traced back 25 years to mortgage bonds, Fannie Mae and subprime.2010T1–
Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants–2015T4–
Saudi America: The Truth About Fracking and How It's Changing the World–2018T4–
The Big Fail–2023–

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